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Python cx-freeze shortcut icon

I use cx-freeze to distrute an application by making a msi install file. In the setup.py script I specify the shortcut which needs to be placed on the desktop. However the shortcuts icon is blank. The setup.py contains the following code. What am I doing wrong?

import ...
....
shortcut_table = [
("DesktopShortcut", # Shortcut
"DesktopFolder", # Directory_
"PhotonFileEditor", # Name
"TARGETDIR", # Component_
"[TARGETDIR]PhotonEditor.exe", # Target
None, # Arguments
None, # Description
None, # Hotkey
"[TARGETDIR]photonsters.ico", # Icon
0, # IconIndex
None, # ShowCmd
"TARGETDIR", # WkDir
)
]


# Now create the table dictionary
msi_data = "Shortcut": shortcut_table
#msi_data = "Shortcut": shortcut_table, "Icon": icon_table

# Change some default MSI options and specify the use of the above defined tables
bdist_msi_options = 'data': msi_data

....


2 Answers
2

Thx, this solved my problem! A snippet of my code:

Shortcuttable:

shortcut_table = [
("DesktopShortcut", # Shortcut
"DesktopFolder", # Directory_
"PhotonFileEditor",# Name
"TARGETDIR", # Component_
"[TARGETDIR]PhotonEditor.exe", # Target
None, # Arguments
None, # Description
None, # Hotkey
"", # Icon (Use
0, # IconIndex
None, # ShowCmd
"TARGETDIR", # WkDir
)
]


Setup:

setup ( name = "PhotonFileEditor",
version = "0.1",
author= "Photonsters",
url="https://github.com/Photonsters",
description = "Photon File Editor",
options = "build_exe": build_exe_options,"bdist_msi": bdist_msi_options,
executables = [Executable(script="PhotonEditor.py",
base=base,icon="PhotonEditor.ico",)]
)


Have you tried to:

icon

Executable

remove the backslash in the Target of your shortcut_table, and remove the Iconand IconIndex entries?

Target

shortcut_table

Icon

IconIndex

import ...

....
shortcut_table = [
("DesktopShortcut", # Shortcut
"DesktopFolder", # Directory_
"PhotonFileEditor", # Name
"TARGETDIR", # Component_
"[TARGETDIR]PhotonEditor.exe", # Target
None, # Arguments
None, # Description
None, # Hotkey
None, # Icon
None, # IconIndex
None, # ShowCmd
"TARGETDIR", # WkDir
)
]


# Now create the table dictionary
msi_data = "Shortcut": shortcut_table
#msi_data = "Shortcut": shortcut_table, "Icon": icon_table

# Change some default MSI options and specify the use of the above defined tables
bdist_msi_options = 'data': msi_data

executables = [Executable(....,
icon='photonsters.ico')]

....

setup(....,
executables=executables)


Have you checked that the icon file photonsters.ico is present in the build_dir directory after the build step?

photonsters.ico

build_dir

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